There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.